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Gainers, Losers, and Highest Volume Macros

The program enables you to use a quote page to display the instruments that have gained the most points, lost the most points, or posted the highest volume. The terms gainers and losers refer to the percent change from yesterdays close. For example, percent change=((last-previous)/prev)100 or percent change=(net/prev)100. These three statistical breakdowns are available only on an exchange-by-exchange basis.

Gainers, losers and highest volume are macros. They fill quote windows with symbols. The symbols they fill are unique because they can change. For example, if you use the gainers macro, your window is filled with instruments that have moved up the most.

By default, these macros display the top twenty qualifying instruments. Therefore, the quote page you choose for displaying these lists should contain enough room for twenty instruments.

To use these macros, you must display the Exchange Filter and set the Stat field to ON for each exchange you want to evaluate. We recommend that you turn on only those exchanges you want to evaluate. If you turn on several exchanges, your systems Queue processing will slow down. This is important. If your Queue is not 100% free, a list of gainers, losers or highest volume instruments may not be accurate. You can see whether the Queue is 100% free by displaying your System Status window and looking at the value under Free.

Gainers, Losers, and Highest Volume macros display instruments that trade on the same exchange. This means you cannot mix the top twenty gainers from both the American and the New York Stock Exchanges; however, you can display the top ten American Stock Exchange gainers and the top ten New York Stock Exchange gainers in the same quote window.

With gainers and losers, remember that all things are relative. An instrument that moves from one dollar to two dollars moves a greater percentage than a stock that moves from seventy-five dollars to seventy-seven dollars.

See also:

Displaying Gainers

Displaying Losers

Displaying Highest Volume Instruments